Jade Synstelien - guitar & vocals & composition; Jack Glottman - piano; Ben Meigners - upright bass; Phil Stewart - drums; Sharel Cassity - alto; Geoff Vidal - tenor; Stacy Dillard - tenor; Jonathan Voltzok - bone; Max Siegel - bass bone; Brandon Lee - trumpet; Tatum Greenblatt - trumpet; Sacha Perry - piano on quartet record.
Influences
Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Charles Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Lunceford, Herbie Nichols, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Eric Dolphy, Johnny Hodges, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, James Brown, Bob Marley, Freddie Green, Bob Dylan, Charlie Christian, Django, Joe Pass, Mozart, Beethoven, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ghandi, Kimana, Jesus Christ, and many, many, many, more...
...way too many to name, ever.
Sounds Like
Demands for freedom, equality, and compassion for all.
HI ♫♪♪ From THE OFFICIAL BLEU OCEAN MUSIC PAGE! Thanks for your Friendship . And your posts . Do keep in touch and have a great weekend full of music and fun . AND Have A HAPPY NEW YEAR .2009 PS DROP ME A POST ANY TIME From your Drummer Friend . BLEU OCEAN www. bleu-ocean. com I ENJOYED Your Site and Music ! Thanks
HI Jade Honey!!! Hope all is well and married life is beautiful. Give me a shout when you have a chance and check out my new song "Tell Me" I just put it up. Hope you like it. Lots of love!!!
YO JADE-SKI I MISS YOU BABY! TELL ALL THE CATS AT THE FAT CAT ,BEN, NOEL, SHAREL,STACEY-D ALL THE REAL; MUTHER F-KERS SOON COME KEEP SWINGIN AN REPRESENTIN. PEACE FROM THE FAR EAST. EW
Hey man - the tracks at Jadesjazz sound great! Still want to hear the piece you were describing the last time we talked tho' - Sundays are just on lockdown for me now!